The Homestretch

This year’s entry for the Hospice Cup Poster Competition was made using last year’s entry as a template for a digital painting. 

Digital Directions OPEN until Feb 26, 2022

 

All framed -up and ready to go!

 Ready to be delivered to MFA next week for Digital Directions 2022. 

MFA Digital Directions Acceptance!

 Happydance! My An Apple A Day digital painting, Flow, has been accepted to be part of the Maryland Federation of Art's upcoming 2022 Digital Directions show. As usual, something I didn't overthink and that was more play than anything is the successful image.

Dry Run progress...

 

Commission progress…

I’ve continued to refine to digital painting for this project. I divided it into a grid and printed each piece. Then I laid them out on the floor with some tape measures to show the size the finished piece will be. I decided what I want to do is practice painting it full scale on paper next. I have a big roll of brown paper that I cut and will use. Had to overlap 2 pieces to get the right size. Now the question is how will I do this? On the floor? Maybe. I think on a table would have it too high for me to see what I was doing in the context of the entire painting. Hoping for a large easel for Xmas…

Inktober 2021

 

Beginning a new commission…

 Playing with an idea for a #contemporary #kitchen piece based on an old family recipe that makes triangular #cookies with fruit centers. 

07/24/2021 Working hard

Hi all. I have been working hard for a couple weeks now on a submission for Easton, Maryland (USA)’s Gateway Sculpture project. A 4-sided obelisk is to be erected featuring art from 4 Maryland artists printed on 5x25’ panels of LEXAN. The artwork is supposed to follow a theme of Maryland water/riverfront life and/or Essex itself. Mine features a Baltimore checkerspot coming in for a landing on a Black-eyed Susan (the MD state flower) whose petals are made in he map outline of Essex. The sun peeks out from clouds through which a skipjack (MD state boat) trawls. A kayaker paddles below. 

One thing I’ll mention here that I’m not making a point of in my submission, because I don’t feel it’s the forum for an agenda of mine, is that I very deliberately make the kayaker, who represents a generic “outdoors-person,” non-white and most probably non-male. The PFD hides other gender cues, and the figure could be either a woman, long-haired man, or any other gender. Studying and working in wildlife biology, the stereotype of activities like kayaking, canoeing, boating, hiking, camping, and hunting as white male pursuits was pervasive. I therefore sought to normalize one not meeting those criteria by placing such a person in my artwork, which, if chosen, has the potential to be seen by 35,000 people daily. Fingers crossed!

06/22/2021 Figurong out backgrounds…

 Which would you choose?

06/02/2021 Regency

06/01/2021 Shell Necklace—Complete

 

More necklace progress

 

5/29/2021 More progress on the necklace + apple

 

5/26/2021 Apple+ necklace in progress

 

5/16/2021 Sailor’s Delight

 

05/14/21 Lilacs

 

5/12/21 The Star, updated

 

05/09/2021 Mother’s Day Clouds

 

5/8/2021 Freckles